Corset.



A. ABT.

CORSET. APPLICATION FILED MAR. I0, I915.

Patented Oct. 5,

4 ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED ART, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WARNEB BROTHERSCOMPANY, OF BBIDGEI'ORT, CONNECTICUT, A. CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

CORSET.

Specification of Letters'latent.

Patented Oct. 5, 1915.

Application filed m n 10, 1915 Serial no. 13,315.

' provides a very comfortable garment for the wearer.

In the following I have described, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, a corset provided with one form of my new improvement andillustrating the construction and advantages thereof, the new featuresbeing more particularly pointed outhereinafter in the claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a corset, parts beingbroken away, showing one form of my improvement applied thereto. Fig. 2is an inside view of one-half of the corset, parts being broken away;Fig. 3 is a front view, similar to Fig. 1, the top being broken away,showing the two halves of the corset clasped and laced together.

Similar letters of reference indicate similar parts throughout theseveral views.

The corset is shown as'comprising two sections or halves a and b lacedtogether at the back, as at c, and provided with side lacings e and f.In front the corset is provided with a busk 9 having the usualconnecting devices it. The corset is' also provided with the usualstiffening strips 2', i, and hose-supporters j, j. I

The lower portion ofthe busk g is free from the front of the body of thecorset, as

shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the inner edge of each half of the busk beingconnected to the body portion at a point distant from the center of. thecorset and intermediate the top and bottom thereof by means of a stripof material is, preferably of elastic material. The strips in arepreferably so positioned that when in place on the wearer they rest overthe abdomen on either side of the center line thereof. The front skirtsl and m, of the corset, free from the busk as shown, are adapted to beconnected together by a lacing n, the lower portions of the skirts belngleft unconnected if desired. The lacing of the skirts extendsapproximately the vertical width of strips 0 and adjustably reinforcesagainst the strain on the corset at this point.

As shown in the drawings, the lower ends of stays or stifl'ening strips71, i, extend to a point a little below midway of strips 7:, the freeportions of the skirts, or the portions unconnected with the busk, beingsubstantially unstiflt'ened. The strips k are also shown as inclinedupward and rearward from the busk (Fig, 2) to aflord better.

means of taking up the strains.

It is clear from the drawings and the foregoing description that when onthe person of the wearer and the corset is clasped, the strips is willrest upon and press against the abdomen, while the lacing n will furtherserve to reinforce such strains, drawing the skirts of the corsettightly and adjustably over the abdomen.

It is to be observed that the construction of the corset, as describedand shown, at the place where the skirts Z and m. are separated from thebusk, is such that a smooth, 7

continuous and unbroken breadth of fabric extends from top to bottom ofthe corset, the fabric of the body portion of the corset extending tothe outer edges of the busk above the point of separation, and to the Iouter edge of the skirt below said point,

without cross stitching or piecing at the point of separation or elsewhere. The fabric is simply tacked to the busk at the point ofseparation from the busk by sewing or stitches o, the eyelets for lacingn being secured in the same piece of fabric, which co ntinued above thepoint of separation, forms the outer covering for the busk. The fullstrength of the fabric is therefore utilized as well as amore sightlystructure obtained.

I do not restrict myself to any of the details of construction orarrangement of parts further than the scope of the appended claim mands.

I claim:

The combination with a corset body formed of two body halves, of busksrespectively secured to said body halves from the top to a pointadjacent the waist line and free from the body halves from the waistline downwardlyto a point over the lower portion of the abdomen,substantially rec tangular elastic strips each connected at one Wardlyover the said lower tree portions of end to the inner face of a bodyhalf at a the busks. point remote from a busk and at its other Intestimony whereof I have signed this end directly to the lower treeportion of said specification in the presence of two suloscrilo- 5 buskand each said insert lying entirely on ing Witnesses. the inner face ofthe corset bodyhalf, the

corset'body proper extending downwardly e substantial distance below thelower free Witnesses: portions of the busks and being adjustably T. M.HAGGEMAN,"

ALFRED ABE 10 connected together from the waistline doWn- A. M. JAMmsoN.

